If you use a laptop:
Please ensure you use Google Chrome to open the online work. If you already have a Gmail account on this laptop, you will need to sign out before logging in through Wonde.
If you Use a Chromebook:
We recommend that you sign in with a normal Gmail account and then access the school account in an 'Incognito' window.
If you use an iPad:
If you log on through Safari, everything seems to work well. You do not need to download the apps. Please sign out of any personal Gmail accounts.
If you use an Amazon Fire Tablet:
We are having issues with the older amazon fire tablets, we currently cannot get the online learning to work.
If you use an Android Tablet:
If you can add the school account to your device then this seems to work best. There are many different ways to do this. There is an issue with Jamboard on Samsung Tablets.
If you are having logon issues - please make sure that you:
Sign out of all personal Google/Gmail accounts
Clear your browsers cookies
Use an 'Incognito' window.
Tablets come with a number of inbuilt accessibility tools, for example enabling users to magnify text, read text aloud, use dictation, or add colour filters.
Find out more: iPad Accessibility Options: https://www.apple.com/uk/accessibility/ipad/
Android Accessibility Options: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6006564
In Word documents, you can enable ‘Speak selected text’ in the Quick Access Toolbar to read aloud any text.
Pressing the Windows button + H (in Windows 10) will allow dictation into any document or application.
The Immersive Reader from Microsoft is wonderful for supporting weaker readers, pupils with English as an additional language, and pupils with dyslexia. This is available in Office 365, but there is also an extension for the Microsoft Edge browser, plus an unofficial one for Chrome.
Bear in mind that a Word or Google document is easier to format, and can be read by a screen reader more easily, than a PDF.
There are a number of short videos for teachers and parents on these features at http://sheffieldclc.net/remote-learning